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Posted on 08/12/2025 6:09:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
China has unveiled its first AI-powered, 5G-enabled robot antelope to monitor endangered Tibetan wildlife, blending surveillance technology with wildlife tracking in the remote Hoh Xil plateau.
To the wolves of Tibet, China's first 'robot antelope' may look as appetising as the real herds that roam the rugged tundra, but the "creature" is part of Beijing's growing surveillance that now even reaches into its most remote places.
Its doe-like eyes and thick brown fur make the robotic ruminant nearly indistinguishable from the real antelope as the 5G- and AI-integrated imposter scans the Hoh Xil plateau with its sensors, footage from China's state news agency Xinhua shows.
Developed by Xinhua, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Hangzhou-based DEEP Robotics, the robot antelope is equipped with 5G connectivity and artificial intelligence vision systems, enabling real-time monitoring of the migration, feeding and mating behaviours of the endangered species endemic to Tibet.
China is offering its robotics industry tens of billions in subsidies and was host to the 2025 World Robot Conference, which wrapped up on Tuesday.
5G arrived in Tibet in 2019, according to Chinese government documents, and the southwestern region reached 1 million users by 2022. With the completion of a 5G base station in the town of Gogmo in late 2023, every district in Tibet was covered, state media reported.
Beyond transmitting live images and tracking data on rare antelope species, Tibet's 5G infrastructure now supports a growing range of AI applications — from small drones that can operate in areas impenetrable to radar, to telemedicine consultations and smart yak herding technologies, according to Chinese state media reports.
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Tried to thwart this with microphones added to the cameras.
Seen but not herd.
PBS is running a show on “spy creatures.” Pretty good.
Next up. Trying it with humans.
Wonder how resistant it is to being mounted? Does it have rear view cameras?
Tibetan girl to suitor: 🏔️ 🌺 💔
I can’t elope
on your antelope.
It’s a phony ‘bot,
is that the best you got?
It’s a Californian Haiku!
Photo.
Woman: I’m glad I caught up with you but why, why would you run away from our land of paradise? That new antelope you chased was a phony. A robot. Just like the AI chat entity you fell in love with on social media on the internet. An illusion.
I think that is the fake one.
Thanks. In my case a Low-ku.
Not listening to the Who, I WAS fooled again.
Are they really monitoring the antelopes or the people?
Do these antelope come with laser beams?
Maybe that there is 5G service in the antelope range is why the antelopes are endangered in the first place.
Just for giggles, they should make one thatlooks like a real doofus antelope and send it around and sse hkw other animals react to it. Make it really bizarre like with several horns, drooling, with doofy grin, and cross-eyed. Etc. See if animals react different,y toward it.
“Wonder how resistant it is to being mounted? Does it have rear view cameras?”
Someone sent me a video of a gobbler mounting a hen decoy. It was comical!
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